Best guess: “out for delivery” means “loaded into the van”. Especially if the projected delivery time is rather late, that is, you’re at the tail end of their round, it can happen that they won’t make it. And because FedEx isn’t being smart about things and flips route directions every day it can be that they won’t make it the next day, either, because you’re still at the end of the route. Only when your location is covered by another driver which doesn’t have you towards the very end then is the package delivered.

There’s various ways to alleviate that, in particular switching around routes so the tail end problem doesn’t hit the same people all the time, but I guess the penny-pincher MBAs that be at FedEx don’t see it contributing to the quarterly results. Here in Germany it’s usually along the lines of “we’re fucking busy, sucks to be you, we brought it to a parcel pick up, go there, next delivery attempt in three days, then it’s going to stay at the pickup until you pick it up or we send it back. Did you know that you can register with parcel pickup and have all your packages sent there also it’s self-serve. Please, it’s right next to the supermarket our backs hurt. Do something for the environment, :)!”.

To a (modern) compatibilist, free will is the capacity to respond to the same stimulus with different reactions, i.e. it’s equivalent to the cybernetic concept of degrees of freedom. As such, answer:

“You can poke a ball-point pen and it’s going to do the same thing, over and over again: Extend and retract the lead. It is predictable because its internal complexity is below the threshold of chaos.” Then proceed to repeatedly poke them in the arm to see how many different reactions they have to that. Mentally prepare for a tickle fight.

In other words they’re good at knocking on the wall.

Unlikely as many Germanic languages have it, with similar meanings. It’s a variant of “ja”, yes. Add a bit of laconicy and you can make “Well.” a sentence in itself.

deleting all the dependencies of VLC

You mean like libc.so? Bold move, bold move.

I was going to add a jab at the Brits but then thought “nah, they’re going to do that themselves, much more effective that way”.

Ryanair has no plans to introduce them. (sorry for the metro link).

Also Ireland kind of gets a pass they don’t have a rail link to anywhere. A Dublin-Holyhead tunnel would definitely be a good idea.

The lengths the US will go to to avoid building high-speed rail.

Unless you’re running BSD or some other genetic Unix probably not as everything GNU is newer than that. GNU is 80s, original Unix 70s, in the 60s you still have giant minicomputers with very little standardisation, including ISA, and before the 60s there were not even compilers.

A decent chunk of software traces lineage back to then, even if the old code has been retired: vi is the screen terminal mode of ex with is a more featureful ed which got most of its features from qed which is 60s software. Cutting-edge: You didn’t have to punch holes any more, you had a keyboard and a printer. Someone figure out where dd has its argument syntax from so we know whom to blame.

Gesundheit.

Nah, you’re just occupying another spot on it. And unless you’re an algae or something, literally living from light and elements floating about in the air and sea, you’re not at the bottom.

The ecology expands beyond your pet ethical considerations.

Side question: Would you begrudge your dog eating your corpse? If you love them so much, why don’t you feed them, when that is all you have left to give?

Your dog would not mind eating your horse. Your dog also wouldn’t mind eating you.

There’s two principal reasons why people make a difference between cats/dogs on the one side and horses on the other: The degree to which they’re family, but very crucially also to the degree to which horses, or cows, very much aren’t carnivores, it’s about position on the foodchain, how much heavy metals etc. accumulate, that’s not just a modern thing it’s always been the case. That’s why eating dogs is an exception among human cultures, while with cows not eating them is the exception.

Horse meat is absolutely tasty, and if it wasn’t so unpopular it’d probably be in the same price range as beef, overall the market is quite small, and absolutely zero horses are raised for meat. Bluntly said at the end of a horse’s career an owner is asked “do you want an urn, vacuum packs, or not pay anything I’ll sell the meat”. If your dietary preference for meat is animals which have been loved and pampered all their life horse is a very good choice.

Trouble with the scandal back then was that it was all untracked horse meat. And there’s plenty of horses around which get treated with veterinary drugs that make them unsuitable for human consumption because no owner is prioritising slaughter over their health.

Well, I’m using KDE and I set up a library eight months ago and… yes there’s a bug. Just checked. Not entirely the same but related to this:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/9797

There’s an official workaround mentioned there.

I guess KDE updated their portal protocol version some time in between and steam got doubly confused. Probably not a KDE bug, in particular because this kind of stuff is happening for many, many portal implementations.

And it’s not a dolphin window (with me) btw it’s a qt filepicker. Says “portal” at the end in the title, kde logo to the left.

add a secondary storage device to my steam library.

You mean have more than one steam library? That’s a steam setting. Nothing to do with KDE. Gnome, Debian or Fedora.

The flatpak works,

Oh. There’s your issue. Don’t run steam as a flatpak, there might be sandboxing issues.

EDIT: MF did you read the page you downloaded stuff from:

Note: To add a game library on another drive, first you need to grant the app access to it:

flatpak override --user --filesystem=/path/to/your/Steam/Library com.valvesoftware.Steam

You know what also doesn’t make sense? Not boiling chicken in milk. I can guarantee you that’s not the milk of the chicken’s mother. The “don’t boil a young goat in the milk of its mother” thing at least has a proper interpretation in the sense of “there were some people who did that and God came and God said ‘yo that’s nasty, stop it’”. Something about not using sacrifice as an opportunity to practice transgression.

In the end I think scripture is just a tool for Jews to have something to argue about endlessly.

*Mögest du von einem Schwertfisch gefickt werden.

Konjunktiv I, and “bei” would be appropriate for “by candlelight” or “at the bakery”, but not “by some agent”. “vom Bäcker” – you’re getting fucked by the baker, "beim Bäcker’ – you’re getting fucked at the bakery. Dative in both cases.

Meanwhile, in reality, the EU funds lemmy’s development.

One refers to an indefinite and generic group, and it’s not a “they/them” in the sense that one does not exclude oneself from that group (it’s generic, after all). I guess universal quantification is close in meaning.

It’s a thing specific to English, or I guess Indo-European languages in general. All languages have first, second, and third person anything beyond that is non-standard. E.g. Finnish has a 0th person, “Infer who is meant from context”.

because it’s arguably a fourth person pronoun.

Even if you consider it a pronoun, which you’d then also have to do with “class” in “Class, please open the book at page 14”, it’s still second person plural. Arguments against “class” and chat" being a pronoun include that they’re nouns, I think that’s rather convincing.

Fourth person would be “One does not simply walk into Mordor”. “One does not address the fourth person”. I guess people got it mixed up with the 4th wall that’s why the confusion exists.